Design conventions of layout
- Design
- Colour
- Font
- Typography
- Alignment
- Arrangement
- Illustrations
- Scale
What you can work with
- Colour
- Photography
- Illustration
- Typography
- What is its purpose?
- Showing of your photography skills or/and design skills
- Do want text, this might be more important in the degree catalog to summarise my photography
- What is going where in the catalog is important, tie images and different works together.
- Do whats best to show your work off
- To make contact
- How many images are used?
- Where are things placed?
Books
- Creates a narrative
- Typeface
- Colour
- Consider the print and paper
- Style of illustrations
Historical context:
- Sequential
- Early Experimental
- Bauhaus
- Foundations of graphic design
Publications like Time and National Geographic
How we communicate with the viewer.
Preparing files:
- Start thinking about output
- Min res 150 ppi
- Save as a TIFF
- CMYK file
- High quality images are 8 bits/channel, but for large exhibitions work in 16 bits/channel Prepare files to right size for printing in books
Writing a Press release:
Nouns;
- Photography
- Still Life
- Blogs
- Video
- Beauty
- Consumerism
- Self
- Studio
- Un-Bias
Verbs;
- Filmed
- Explored
- Researched
- Investigated
- Photographed
- Subjected
Who is your reader?
Subject needs to interest people
Avoid rambling, sounding pretentious
Error of spelling/grammar/typos
Use photographs, up to 6
Send high resolution images separately
Have a copyright statement
Send contact details, website and social media
Send to people who will give the best feedback
Paragraph about exhibition and others, books, commissions
Self promotion, what is interesting
Describe your work
How you created the work
Current projects